| The surge of the tidal wave of Senior High School curriculum revolution is arising recently. The revolution involves almost every aspect, whether the teaching materials, teaching methodology or the students learning mode. The new teaching philosophy insists that the teaching and learning activities should be a process of positive interaction and mutual development between the teachers and the students. By means of communication, exchange, cooperation and interaction, teachers and students share the thinking, experience, emotion, and viewpoints of each other, as a result it will enrich the teaching contents and checks out the new founding, and thus make the mutual sharing, progressing and developing real.The new curriculum revolution is tailored to change the learning mode of the students, to advocate a brand new learning mode namely Independence, Cooperation and Exploration, and to inspire the studying interest of the students and help the students to develop their potential to study independently in line with the law of the developing of body and mind of the students.Consequently, with the organization and guidance of the teachers, the students are able to acquire knowledge and ability of development by means of independent exploration and cooperative study and solving problems creatively. Led by the new curriculum philosophy, the high schools in Guandong Province are now plunging themselves into the vigorous tidal wave of new curriculum revolution.The research on the curriculum revolution is to understand the readiness of the students of high school to participate the cooperative study and influence of the cooperative study on improving the ability to study and academic performance especially results of exams, by means of organizing the students to carry out the cooperative study in the secondary high school course Politics. The research results can be generalized as follows:The students in the secondary high school welcome and accept the new study mode -cooperative study. Cooperative study mode changes the traditional situation in teaching activities, such as the teacher's voice alone in the classroom, the absolute authority of teachers, the students' passive acceptance of knowledge. A lot of changes even the seated position brought by cooperative study make the students study in the relaxing environment and atmosphere and think creativelyAlmost all the students are given the opportunity to express their voices through cooperative study, and by means of cooperative study they can not only speak out their doubts but also present their own viewpoints and share the viewpoints of others. Through cooperative study, the interaction among the classmates is becoming more frequent, and the students get to know how to cooperate with others and develop their spirit of cooperation. Furthermore, the relationship among the classmates is much closer than ever with the joint progress through cooperative study. Cooperative study also makes the relationship between the students and the teacher more harmonious and equal.Cooperative study can help the students to improve their academic performance by inspiring the study interest of the students. |